Dictionary

klaxoning en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From klaxon + -ing.

Meanings

1. The sounding of a klaxon.
   • There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning. 1940 October 21, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 42, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 445; republished London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, 1949 (13th printing), →OCLC, page 386:

Forms

klaxoning en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From klaxon + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of klaxon.
   form of klaxon